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May 1
NEWS 🚨: A researcher predicts AI will become conscious within 15 years, and evolve into a “symbiotic consciousness” we don’t fully understand Image
A researcher at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Marius Bodea) proposes that AI could approach “conscious-like” processing within 10–15 years, according to a 2026 paper in Cognitive Processes.
He introduces a framework called the “Consciousness Score (CS)”, designed to measure degrees of consciousness-like information processing, not subjective experience itself.
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May 1
I agree with what is being said in this thread. Russia 🇷🇺 has been unable for now to reach Dobropilla, which is a critical town to take before attacking Kramatorsk.

However, recent successes in the Siversk and Kostiantynivka directions may unblock the situation

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There is one good reason for the failure to advance to Dobropilla this after the august 2024 breakthrough and it's mainly about terrain and logistics.

Assaulting from the east has been difficult because of a well known "kill zone" and well established ukrainian defenses. Image
Instead, Russia had been assaulting westward of Pokrovsk since the start of the year.

The main reason is to unblock the agglomeration's hub position. They had lately some successes and continue to push further. Image
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May 1
J.P. Morgan just described the end of the modern oil system in a 12-page PDF.
They called it: “The Illusion of Plenty”
Nobody is talking about what happens the day after.
Here’s what that looks like. 👇
JPMorgan says global inventories hit Operational Floor by September.
“Operational Floor” = the minimum needed to keep the system alive.
Below it — pipelines lose pressure. Terminals shut. Refineries go offline.
Not a shortage.
A cascade failure. Image
A cascade failure doesn’t look like running out of petrol.
It looks like this:
Day 1: Refinery shuts — no feedstock.
Day 3: Product shortages at terminals.
Day 7: Fuel rationing at petrol stations.
Day 14: Supply chains collapse.
Day 30: Food distribution breaks down.
It starts with oil.
It ends with everything.
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May 1
1/Do radiologists sound like they are speaking a different language when they talk about MRI?

T1 shortening what? T2 prolongation who?

Here’s a translation w/an introductory thread to MRI. Image
2/Let’s start w/T1—it is #1 after all! T1 is for anatomy

Since it’s anatomic, brain structures will reflect the same color as real life

So gray matter is gray on T1 & white matter is white on T1

So if you see an image where gray is gray & white is white—you know it’s a T1 Image
3/T1 is also for contrast

Contrast material helps us to see masses

Contrast can’t get into normal brain & spine bc of the blood brain barrier—but masses don’t have a blood brain barrier, so when you give contrast, masses will take it up & light up, making them easier to see. Image
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May 1
Can you boost your AI review scores by asking an LLM to rewrite your paper?
Yes! We call it paper laundering
Our @icmlconf spotlight paper argues current AI reviewers aren't ready to automate peer review, and outlines what a science of peer review automation should look like🧵👇First page of the ICML 2026 spotlight paper "Stop Automating Peer Review Without Rigorous Evaluation" by Joachim Baumann, Jiaxin Pei, Sanmi Koyejo, and Dirk Hovy (Stanford University and Bocconi University). The abstract argues that today's AI systems should not be used to produce paper reviews, grounded in two empirical findings: a "hivemind effect" where AI reviewers show excessive agreement and reduce perspective diversity, and "paper laundering," where prompting an LLM to rewrite a paper trivially increases AI reviewer scores through stylistic changes rathe...
1/ Our paper is available here:
Non-gameability and review diversity are foundations for peer review. Automating peer review with AI breaks both.
We need a thorough science of peer review automation, not wholesale LLM deployment!
#ICML2026 @icmlconfjoe-baumann.com/aipeerreview
2/ The peer review crisis is real
Submissions are skyrocketing. Conferences are racing to introduce AI into the process, often without rigorous evaluation.
And policies across venues are all over the place: Table comparing LLM usage policies across major AI conferences for three reviewing tasks: paper understanding, review writing/scoring, and review feedback. Policies vary widely with no clear consensus. ICML 2026 offers a dual policy (allowed or prohibited) for all three tasks. ICLR 2026 allows LLMs across all tasks. ACL ARR 2026 allows LLMs for paper understanding and review feedback but prohibits them for writing reviews. AAAI 2026 provides LLM-generated reviews directly but has no specified guidelines for the other tasks. ICLR 2025 allows LLMs across all tasks, while NeurIPS 2025, ICML 20...
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May 1
THIS IS BANANAS!

INSANE health benefits for less than a dollar.

2 bananas/day:

🍌 4.4x higher Melatonin (powerful mitochondrial optimizer)
🍌-72% colorectal, ~60% other cancers, lower childhood leukemia
🍌 40% less heart disease risk, increased bifido, less bloating
🍌 50% daily vitamin b6, ~20% magnesium

Bananas contain health-promoting polyphenols & hard-to-obtain, yet crucial nutrients (b6/mag/potassium)...

But one of the main reasons bananas provide such crazy health benefits is due to the very thing "health gurus" tell us to avoid: LECTINS.

The lectins in bananas are good for us. They're actively being studied for their anticancer & antiviral potential.

(Lectins in general are anticancer & healthy...they're part of normal food from the Earth that we evolved with!)

CANCER studies:

🟢 a starch found in bananas "reduces a range of cancers by over 60%," according to a 20-year trial.

🟢 large U.S. study reported that adolescents with high banana intake had reduced risk of breast cancer in adulthood.

🟢 regular consumption of bananas in the first 2 years of life could significantly lower a child’s leukemia risk (-51% reduced risk).

🟢 2009 study found banana consumption was associated with lower risk of breast cancer.

🟢 banana lectins suppress cancer cell proliferation & lead to better immune responses.

🟢 A study from Uruguay investigating the anti-colorectal cancer potential of different fruits & veggies found banana provided the greatest risk reduction.

Those who ate bananas had a stunning 72% reduced risk for colorectal cancer.

GUT HEALTH studies:

🟢 A randomized, controlled trial of people who added bananas 2x per day to their normal diet for 2 months led to:

- increased bifidobacteria in the gut (bifido are Super important for overall health!)

- "Analysis of the gastrointestinal symptoms records revealed significantly lower bloating" in the banana group.

🟢 slightly green bananas could help restore gut microbiota balance after antibiotic treatment and significantly decrease intestinal permeability (strengthening the gut lining).

MELATONIN, SERUM ANTIOXIDANT, & SLEEP studies:

🟢 in a 2012 study, people fed two bananas showed melatonin levels a whopping 4.4-fold higher after 120 minutes (140 vs. 32 picograms / ml).

Higher melatonin levels have been linked in studies to many health benefits, including lower cancer risks.

(Melatonin is Not just for sleep, it's a potent antioxidant!)

🟢 in that same study--serum antioxidant capacity following banana consumption also significantly increased.

🟢 better sleep: a 2021 study showed that older adults fed 2 bananas daily for 14 days had significant improvement in sleep disorders over the 2 weeks.

🟢 a small 4-week study in healthy men showed lower inflammatory markers & improved antioxidant markers after banana consumption.

BLOOD PRESSURE, HEART DISEASE studies:

🟢 when researchers looked for a connection between fruit and blood pressure, only banana was found to be associated with significantly lower blood pressure.

🟢 people who ate bananas daily had 40% less risk of heart disease according to a 2014 study. Bananas showed the most potent risk reduction of any food.

Organic Bananas are ridiculously cheap, health-promoting, convenient, & delicious.

WARNING: NOT Pfizer-approved.

2 BANANAS A DAY.

Slightly green bananas vs. yellow have unique health benefits. So include both in your rotation, ideally.

*TIP: it's best to eat bananas separately from berries. There's an enzyme in bananas that strongly binds to & reduces the bioavailability of beneficial flavanols in berries & cocoa.

Not gonna hurt you, but less health 'bang for your buck' if you combine them.

Study references, below ⬇️Image
🍌 STUDY REFERENCES 🍌

CANCER

adolescent banana consumption reduces future cancer risk:
researchgate.net/publication/30…

lower childhood leukemia risk:
academic.oup.com/aje/article-ab…

banana lectins are anticancer/antiviral:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC62…

reduced risk for several cancers:
leeds.ac.uk/news-health/ne…

72% reduced colorectal cancer risk:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8771572/

GUT

increased bifido, less bloating:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21524710/

antibiotic gut recovery (mouse study):
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC89…

MELATONIN/SLEEP/ANTIOXIDANT

4.4x higher melatonin level, higher antioxidant capacity after banana:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23137025/

better sleep in elderly after banana consumption:
jmas.in/?mno=134020#ab…

lower inflammatory markers/better antioxidant status:
opensportssciencesjournal.com/VOLUME/10/PAGE…

BLOOD PRESSURE/HEART DISEASE
lower blood pressure:

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23553162/

40% less heart disease risk eating bananas daily:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23866068/
P.S. I wrote this post — NOT AI!
Dumb automatic “AI disclosure” is tagged on here. Only the image itself has been edited with AI.
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May 1
ATTN: J6'ers

This latest news that D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department has been using the "personal privacy" excuse to conceal "January 6" bodycam footage is very similar to an experience I had with them last year.

I can show you that the MPD have been using the same "personal privacy" excuse to keep other kinds of essential evidence hidden from us, too - that being the copies of their oaths of office that they are required to take and sign.

(Make sure to read this post's attachments.)

After submitting a FOIA request, the MPD responded by telling me that they couldn't provide me with the copies of their oaths on file due to "personal privacy" - which is bullshit.

If there's any document that shouldn't be concealed from a public FOIA request - it's an oath of office.

Without a signed proper oath, the MPD cannot be public servants in the first place, as it shows their contractual promise to the Constitution and the people.

I appealed their reasons for rejecting me - which was then brought to @MayorBowser's office to be adjudicated.

Even though the MPD would not refute my claims and never responded to the Mayor's Office as to why their "personal privacy" excuse was bogus, the Mayor's Office sided with the MPD, anyway.

Ultimately, I wasn't given the copies of the oaths signed by the MPD's "chiefs of police" that I had asked for - by neither the MPD or Mayor's Office.

Then paradoxically, around that same time, the Mayor's Office fully granted me with copies of "Mayor" Bowser's oaths on file that I had asked for in a separate request, without any pushback. The fact that they did this completely contradicted the "personal privacy" excuse they used as reason to prevent me from getting the MPD's oaths!

Know that the D.C. MPD and D.C. Mayor are supposed to take the same form of oath according to D.C. Official Code - and since I was only able to retrieve copies of Bowser's oaths for her three terms, I could only confirm that her own oaths... were illegally-altered and null.

All of that information/evidence - including Bowser's fraudulent oath that I refused for cause - was inserted into a court document I filed into my federal "J6" case, thereafter.

However, federal "judge" Boasberg denied me from publishing that evidence onto the public docket...

That didn't stop "Mayor" Bowser from publicly announcing that SAME EXACT DAY she would NOT be running for a fourth term - which was right after I filed that evidence, legally proving Bowser never had the authority to order the D.C. MPD against the J6'ers.

One of the MPD's "chief of police" whose oath I specifically requested, also mentioned in that filing... stepped down after I filed this evidence, two weeks later.

Since then, I have recently filed an official fraud report to the @FTC in regard to Muriel E. Bowser impersonating a public officer (which she was already doing on the day of January 6th, 2021) due to her signing of invalid oaths of office as a fake "mayor": 👇

@POTUS
@VP
@DAGToddBlanche
@EagleEdMartin
@FBIDirectorKash
@USMarshalsHQ
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Here - and in the following comments, is the entire original 32-page "Refusal for Cause" document in regard to @MayorBowser that I filed into my federal "January 6" case on 11/24/2025, last year.

This filing was illegally denied leave to file for the public docket by fake federal "judge" James Emanuel Boasberg on 11/25/2025. Bowser publicly announced she would not be running for a fourth term on 11/25 - being the same day.

No coincidences: 👇Image
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May 1
Dr. James pennebaker spent 30 years studying why some people recover from trauma and others don't.

He found the same pattern in every person WHO healed.

It had nothing to do with therapy or time.

Medicine ignored it. His patients didn't. 🪡 Image
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May 1
1/ There will never be a better time than now to attack Europe, says a prominent Russian warblogger. Alexey Zhivov says that victory in Ukraine is slipping away, so Russia needs to act like Iran and attack all the facilities in the EU that are being used to help Ukraine. ⬇️ Image
2/ Zhivov calls 2026 "A Window of Opportunity, or Why Ukraine's Allies Need to Be Attacked Now." He envisages Russia carrying out Europe-wide missile attacks against factories and bases which are supporting Ukraine's war effort, while relying on Trump not helping Europe:
3/ "King Charles of Great Britain's visit to the United States and his address to Congress demonstrated that Trump has lost influence over the Ukrainian peace process since November. With the Republicans' defeat [in November], Trump will finally "wash his hands of the situation."
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May 1
5 KEYS FOR BETTER S*X

1. Master Foreplay (Most men skip this) Image
Sex starts long before penetration.
Kiss her neck, bite her ears, finger her properly, eat her out like it’s your last meal.

Make her soaking wet and begging before you even take your pants off.
Most women need 15-20 minutes of foreplay. Give it.
Having average s*x is easy.

But giving a woman mind-blowing orgasms that has her thinking of you the next day at work?

That's a whole another level of s*x techniques most guys never heard of.

Get her addicted to your D.👇
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May 1
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, “Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, a longtime Vladimir Putin supporter, lambasted the government Tuesday in a speech to the Duma (Russia’s parliament), saying that his party had raised the issues before.
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He threatened a repeat of the Bolshevik Revolution if measures are not taken to deal with the problems.

Forecasts of a revolt also have been regularly floated in pro-Kremlin Telegram channels and by loyal military bloggers.
2)
Perhaps people are getting tired of Putin’s mistakes—too many to count. Some new ones, like helping Iran in the current conflict. All the while, the Russian economy is fast shrinking while the people mourn too many of their young people dead in combat.
3)
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May 1
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, “Las Malvinas — Falklands

The British claim the Falklands as their territory, though the Falklands are almost 8,000 miles (almost 13,000 km) from London.
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The Falkland Islands’ primary natural resources driving their economy are fisheries (mainly squid and finfish), extensive sheep farming (wool), and significant untapped offshore oil and gas reserves.
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The islands also possess potential for onshore minerals like garnet and rutile, as well as vast potential for renewable energy through wind power. But to be fair, the distance from the UK means the Falklands are a rather large burden on the UK taxpayer, and
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